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DESCRIPTION:Participate in a discussion of San Francisco's land-based housing troubles. 
 The discussion will be moderated.\n\nOur backdrop:\n\nWhen Tim Redmond 
 quotes Karen Chapple in order to school SPUR it's a flop.\n\nHere's the 
 quote from Chapple's essay diagnosing SF downtown's paucity of foot 
 traffic: \n\n"Big landlords and developers hate [restrictive zoning]; they 
 want to maximize every dollar they can get for every inch of 
 land."\n\nChapple, by the way, is an eminent professor of urban planning, 
 while Tim Redmond is publisher and editor of 48 Hills. SPUR is a 
 well-intentioned urban think tank. \n\nThe "flop" observed four paragraphs 
 above is simply this. Everyone of us should be striving to maximize the 
 advantage of every inch of land, but when land is conceded to be 
 conventionally privatable, gone is any practical argument for socially 
 maximizing  the use of land.\n\nAnimals and plant species flourish 
 precisely because they are striving to optimize their use of habitat . . 
 .but with this natural law proviso:  there is no monopoly of habitat by any 
 organic being. San Francisco, however, breeches this natural law by 
 permitting individuals and associations of individuals to monopolize 
 habitat without organically co-existing with other humans. In other words, 
 land owners are not in a reciprocal organic relationship with society. They 
 own land, demand created value from others as a condition for use of 
 location, but offer nothing in exchange that they themselves have created. 
 That non-reciprocal relationship is the origin of all housing 
 debacles.\n\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/08/07/18851457.php
SUMMARY:On line discussion of SF's housing woes
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/08/07/18851457.php
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